America's First Negro Poet: The Complete Works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island

Authors

Jupiter Hammon, Lloyd Manor, Long Island, NY
Stanley Austin Ransom Jr
Oscar Wegelin
Vernon Loggins

Document Type

Archival Material

Date of this Version

1970

Citation

EMPIRE STATE HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS SERIES No. 82
Ira J. Friedman Division, KENNIKAT PRESS, Port Washington, N.Y. 1970

Comments

Introduction copyright (c) 1970 Stanley Austin Ransom, Jr. (All other contents--published before 1923--are public domain.)

Abstract

Introduction by Stanley Austin Ransom, Jr.

Biographical Sketch of Jupiter Hammon by Oscar Wegelin

Critical Analysis of the Works of Jupiter Hammon by Vernon Loggins

THE POETRY OF JUPITER HAMMON

An Evening Thought. Salvation by Christ, With Penetential Cries

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly

A Poem for Children, With Thoughts on Death

A Dialogue Entitled, "The Kind Master and the Dutiful Servant"

THE PROSE OF JUPITER HAMMON

A Winter Piece

An Evening's Improvement

An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York

Bibliography of the Works of Jupiter Hammon